AA’s Bill Wilson’s meditation, visualization

In Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Bill Wilson, the co-founder of AA, writes: “We want the good that is in all of us, even the worst of us, to flower and grow. Most certainly we shall need bracing air and an abundance of sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. How, then, shall we meditate?”[1] (Bold mine)

ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE. (Romans 3: 12)

According to Wilson, “The actual experience of meditation and prayer across the centuries is, of course, immense. The world’s libraries and places of worship are a treasure trove for all seekers.”[2]

Wilson, in other words, was open to meditative knowledge wherever it could be found–whether in Hinduism, Buddhism, distant libraries, the local Catholic church, or anywhere else.